ideas2o » iPod

Apple’s launches the worlds Thinnest & Smartest iPod Nano

zee — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:09:58 +0000

Apple today announced the fourth generation of iPod Nano, the thinnest iPod ever with curved aluminum, two-inch display & glass enclosure in nine vibrant colors.(silver, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink, RED and black. )

Apart from look & design the new Nano also incorporates some functional feature enhancements that includes

Apples has introduced its Genius Technology to automatically create play lists from you song libraries. The function works by taking one song and creating a play list based on the user’s song library and could also suggest other tracks the user might want to buy.
Refined user interface & a high resolution portrait display
Build in accelerometer which automatically switched to cover flow when rotated & goes to Shuffle when lightly shaken, so the sensors are kicking in seems fun.
24 hours of music playback & 4 hours of video playback

How much does it cost

8GB Model for $149
16GB model for $199

“The iPod nano is the world’s most popular music player and we’ve made it even better for this holiday season,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think users are going to love the amazing new design, the automatic Genius playlist creation, as well as automatically going into Cover Flow with just a turn of the wrist.”

Check out the news & worlds thinnest & smartest iPod Nano
Apple Press Release

Make your WordPress Blog Mobile Ready

zee — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:54:01 +0000

With iPhone 3G hitting the market and high speed internet access is easily available on cell phone, more people are using their cell phones to browse internet. Access to internet via mobile grew up to 147% in 2007 and is expected to take a huge jump after the 3G networks & cell phones goes common. Being a blogger its time you should think about accessibility of your blog from a cell phone. So how do you make your blog cell phone friendly.

To do so there are two aspects and two plugins required. One that will make your blog posts accessible by showing an interface designed for mobile device and the other that will make your admin panel accessible for your use on a mobile device.

Make your Blog Posts Mobile Accessible with WordPress Mobile Edition Plug-in
WordPress Mobile Edition is a plug-in that shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device. Mobile browsers are automatically detected, there is no configuration needed. All you have to do is install the plug in activate it and you are ready to go. But there is one flaw it only makes your blog’s post mobile accessible and does not help you out in using its admin panel. So for that there is another plug-in listed below.

Make your Blog Admin Panel Accessible with WordPress WPhone Plug-in

WPhone is a great plug-in if you wish to manage your blog from a cell phone, This award winning WPhone plugin creates an option while logging in to replace the default admin interface with the one designed for your phone. It contains two version for the mobile admin:

Rich Interface designed for iPhone / iPod and other phones supporting full js & css with fancy Ajax
Lite interface designed for a simple version with no Js ot any complex styling just simple.

This plugin is designed for use with the latest version of WordPress, but will work with versions 2.1 and newer.

Connect iPod with the TV

zee — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:21:15 +0000

iPod Video would be more fun if you could connect it with the TV, so far to connect it directly to the TV there are two great way one is the cheap way out and the other is a kool gadget by Tekkeon.

1- NavDock ND 2000
NavDock™ Home Media Center with On-TV Navigation for iPod lets you navigate your iPod through an on-TV menu to play videos, photos and music on a connected television. NavDock browses directly through your iPod menus, so finding and playing music and videos is easy. And you can use the 16-button remote to adjust or mute volume, shuffle, repeat or skip songs, and fast forward or rewind through music or videos. The remote offers a five-way navigation pad and quick keys that jump directly to the videos, photos, music or settings menus.

With NavDock, you have complete control. You can change the language, the menu color scheme to fit your mood, or the navigation speed to fit your taste. You can even access the equalizer or display the lyrics or album art that appears next to your songs in the Now Playing screen in motion as your personalized screensaver.

Source: NavDock ND 2000

Connect iPod With TV using a simple cable.
You can also simply connect your iPod using an A/V Cable. Most probably if you have a camcorder you already have that cable if not then you can buy it from ebay for $1.99.
Connect the cables set your iPod for TV output and you are ready to use your iPod with the TV.